Lebeau-Courally – Le Comte Tourbillon & Le Marquis "Haute Joaillerie" NEW
The first Tourbillon that has bespoke engraved in its dna Le Comte Tourbillon
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The iconic manufacturer Lebeau-Courally has adopted as its vocation to preserve the age-old craft traditions which it brings together in synergy between its watchmaking and gunmaking activities.
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Both in its world-renowned wildfowling pieces and in its timepieces with their unique character, hand craftsmanship plays an important role along with Lebeau-Courally’s unrivalled know-how. Always determined to meet the very highest watchmaking standards, Lebeau-Courally presents two new products to even greater effect this summer of 2014.
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The most notable original feature of Le Comte, absolutely specific to this model, is its patented system for opening the back cover. Based directly on the traditional “clef de fusil” mechanism used for shotguns, this takes the form of a lever at the side of the watch body which when operated reveals a double bottom.
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This complex, delicate mechanism demonstrates all the precision, care and know-how of the Lebeau-Courally brand. The uniquely inventive concept is the ultimate watchmaking homage to the shotguns that are crafted with the utmost concern for tradition and excellence.
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Lebeau-Courally also invites its customers to participate in the creation of their own timepiece by including a personalised engraving on the inside of the cover, making the Le Comte watch even more unique, a veritable work of art which is as exceptional as it is personal.
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With this participative and creative approach, the specific Lebeau-Courally know-how naturally comes to the fore by employing the craft procedures normally used for decorating shotguns. The company’s master engravers, among the best in the world, put all their talent into producing the personalised engraving designed entirely to meet the individual customer’s own ideas and aesthetic tastes.
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For Lebeau-Courally this is yet another way of reaffirming the very close links between watchmaking and the artistic crafts in their deepest tradition. To add to this personalised engraving, the Le Comte watch is now distinguished even further by the ultimate watchmaking complication, namely the tourbillion. A technical masterpiece, the tourbillion currently represents the nec plus ultra of the perfect perpetual movement. The result is a timepiece made according to an aesthetic and symbolic concept as innovative as can be to enclose the most complex-ever mechanism of Haute Horlogerie.
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The tourbillion is a true mechanism within a mechanism, with its own spring and its own case, further guaranteeing the exclusive character, the tremendous attention to detail and at the same time the modern approach which the Lebeau-Corrally brand brings to this top-of-the-range model. The Le Comte watch has rightly earned a full place among the truly exceptional timepieces, in a further demonstration of the dynamism and innovative qualities of this Belgian brand. The best way to tell the time while telling a unique story!
The art of jewelsetting:
Le Marquis "Haute Joaillerie"
Le Marquis "Haute Joaillerie"
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The creation of an exceptional watch has to meet certain strict requirements in the same way as creating a piece of jewellery. The demands of aesthetics, security and presentation determine the techniques that are used to assure the mechanisms and the splendour of the watches. In the jewel settings especially, the artistic prowess brought to be bear must be specially adapted to precisely meet the requirements of watchmaking.
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Drawing on its experience of tooling luxury shotguns that are destined to become collector’s items, in its most exclusive projects Lebeau-Courally draws on the craft procedures that have already proved their worth throughout its history, applying them to different artistic techniques. As it happens, tooling and engraving have many similarities with jewelsetting in terms of the techniques and implements used, providing a shared foundation for work that is essentially similar.
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The Lebeau-Courally designers and artisans have brought two aesthetic techniques and approaches together to present this exclusive creation with its full jewelsetting: - The technique most commonly used in watchmaking is the rail setting. In this case the jewels are slid between two parallel grooves like tiny rails. This is the technique used for baguette-cut jewels.
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Here the jewels are arranged around the inside of the dial with infinite care. - To hold the numerous diamonds that are rigorously selected and cut for perfect symmetry, the pavé setting more commonly used in jewelmaking has been miniaturised here with all the talent of master craftsmen, giving a smooth, harmonious effect to the jewelsetting of the watch.
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The unique, fully set watch employs 1524 diamonds and 36 pavé-cut stones together totalling 12 carats. This exceptional creation demanded 35 days of cutting and two full weeks of jewelsetting to attain the level of excellence that befits an exclusive objet d’art, a work of art in its own right. If these exceptional timepieces are as fascinating as they are scintillating, it is because they crystallise the most accomplished craftsmanship of haute joaillerie.
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The House of Lebeau-Courally holds its mission dear to reflect the nobility and high added value in its creations, combining the excellence of their craftsmanship with their highly technical content. The jewelsetting techniques already used in gunsmithing are exemplified by Le Marquis Haute Joaillerie, in a demonstration that is as elegant as it is spectacular.
Lebeau-Courally – Masterpieces created by Mastercrafts
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